I wonder how could hosts offering TBs of space and bandwidths like Bluehost.com, Dreamhost.com and Hostgator.com and actually managing to provide this to clients solve the disk space and bandwidth storage solution?
Money
There really is no such thing as bandwidth. Its just a fake limitation in capitalism like the IMF portrays money
Thumb rule of hosting providers: The always lie about the bandwidth available.
Might sound cynical, but it’s almost always true.
Storage capacity though… I mean… storage media is cheap as dirt these days.
They are betting on people not using a hundredth of what they pay for. They also usually couldn’t nearly handle every person using all their disk space.
The thing is, 99% of people don’t even get in sight of their limits on these hosts, so they can make up whatever numbers they want. 
Big hosting like that is a lie, which is why I’m going to move from a (mt) GS to a Joyent Accelerator very soon.
[QUOTE=k77;2336853]There really is no such thing as bandwidth. Its just a fake limitation in capitalism like the IMF portrays money[/QUOTE]
There’s such thing as bandwidth, however, metered bandwidth expressed in a unit for disk space is fundamentally incorrect IMHO. Just a means for dividing up services to optimize money. In reality, the bandwidth of a certain cable is what limits hosts from serving up web pages infinitely fast for an infinite number of users.
Wikipedia says a more accurate term for the hosts version of bandwidth is Monthly Data Transfer, and I’ve got to agree. It’s a real limitation, as you can’t pipe trillions of bits of transfer through one cable in a second; you can estimate bandwidth usage per hour of the day and limit accordingly with a “monthly data transfer” estimate.
